The second biggest shareholder in Standard Chartered PLC is standing by the embattled Asia-focused bank, continuing to buy the stock and insisting that nothing is “fundamentally wrong” with the company. Read More »

If the Scottish referendum threw up a shock, it wasn’t the result–betting markets had consistently discounting an 80%-plus probability of a ‘No’ vote. Rather, the surprise is how split the vote was between the old and the young. Read More »

To those who thought the U.K.’s constitutional difficulties had been resolved after Scottish voters rejected independence, David Cameron’s response may have come as a surprise. Standing outside 10 Downing Street early Friday, the U.K. prime minister invoked the “West Lothian question.” Soon the term was trending globally on Twitter amid a scramble to find out what he meant. Here’s the answer. Read More »

Scottish voters’ decision to stick with the rest of the U.K. has boosted sterling, lifted stocks and reset market expectations. But investors being investors, they’re looking at what shadow that leaves over the markets. Political risk could still be on the long-term agenda for the U.K. Here are The Wall Street Journal’s Katie Martin and Charles Forelle to discuss. Read More »

From Alibaba’s IPO to the Scotland referendum to the phenomenon in the options market known as quadruple witching, the market won’t be lacking for catalysts that could sway trading and juice volumes. Read More »

And here comes the rally in stocks. London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.7% in early trade, buoyed by a revival in international investors’ appetite for U.K. assets after Scotland voted against independence. Here are some of the biggest gainers on Friday decision, and why the referendum mattered. Read More »

When the Scottish independence referendum was first announced, it was largely written off as a no chance irrelevance. But as the vote drew nearer and the opinion polls showed a tighter result than had seemed remotely possible, there was a flurry of panic among pro-union politicians and asset markets. And now, with the result in and the No’s posting a clear ten percentage point margin of victory, people are left scratching their heads, wondering “what just happened there?” Read More »

And relax. Some of Scotland’s large financial services firms had warned they might quit the country if it voted for independence Thursday. But Scottish voters decided instead to stay in the U.K. Read More »

Now that Scottish independence has been voted down, people can again focus on the country’s many attractions without the distraction of political upheaval: history, elegant architecture, castles, beautiful landscapes, fantastic fishing, excellent universities, fine whisky, shortbread, a monster in a lake. Read More »